Dear Parents and Carers, The Year 4 Mass for Lent this week, was a wonderful opportunity for us to come together and reflect on the meaning of this season. It was a powerful reminder that Lent is a time of renewal, reflection, and spiritual growth. Children were really respectful and engaged throughout the Mass. Thank […]
Read MoreYear 4 Weekly Update – 10/03/23
Dear Parents and Carers, This week we are preparing for our DT topic of the term ‘Totem Poles’ Year 4 will learn the history of Totem Poles and then design/ Create their own. We will be using toilet roll/kitchen roll holders and a wide range of craft materials such as feathers/ patterned paper to […]
Read MoreYear 4 Weekly Update – 03/03/23
Dear Parents and Carers, We were very impressed with all the artwork children in Year 4 created for World Book day. Thank you for all your donations to the book exchange it has been a great success! Science Museum – We have our visit to the Science Museum on Friday 3rd March with a focus on Electricity. Please […]
Read MoreYear 4 Weekly Update – 24/02/23
Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome back to school! We hope you had a relaxing and enjoyable break and that all of you managed to stay safe. Science Museum – We have our visit to the Science Museum on Friday 3rd February with a focus on Electricity. Please provide your child with a packed lunch and water […]
Read MoreYear 4 Weekly Update – 25/11/22
Dear Parents and Carers, In Year 4, this week we have continued to learn around our focus of ‘Potions’. Children have discussed the features of instructional texts and have designed their own imaginative potions. We were really impressed by their creative ideas. We have also been busy practising our Nativity Play ready for our fast-approaching Christmas […]
Read MoreRemembrance Poetry Workshops
Last week, all of Key-Stage Two took part in drama and poetry workshops to investigate the people of the First World War and their stories. During the sessions, the children created scenes from different poems: some written to encourage men to fight in the war, such as, ‘Who’s for the Game?’ by Jessie Pope and […]
Read MoreKS2 Times Table Rockstars Challenge Results
We are incredibly proud of the children at St Catherine’s Primary School, as our school came 875th (out of 3937 schools) in the recent England Rocks TT Rockstars tournament. The competition was fierce with 171,027,491 questions answered collectively by 704,979 pupils from 3,937 schools and 82,483 classes around the country. Our school statistics were astounding. […]
Read MoreYear 4 Weekly Update – 18/11/22
Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you to all those who were able to attend parent consultations on Friday, reports have been sent home with children today. Year 4 have had a lovely start to the week, we have been wearing odd socks and discussing different types of friendship as part of our ‘Friendship week […]
Read MoreKS2 Hidden Figures Assembly and Workshop – Black History Month
On Monday, KS2 enjoyed an energetic and inspiring assembly to celebrate Black History Month led by Big Foot Theatre Company. We were introduced to various significant British Black people who had helped shape our history and perhaps are not as well-known as some of the more famous faces! Did you know that four Roman Emperors […]
Read MoreYear 4 Potion Day
Year 4 had a wonderful ‘potions day’ filled with experiments and activities that launched our new science topic ‘states of matter’. We started the day sorting a variety of materials into solids, liquids and gases and learning about their particle arrangement. Next, we answered the investigation question “Is custard a liquid?”. Our class science ambassadors […]
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